Washing-machine.



J. B. GIVBNS.

WASHING MACHINE.

urnouron FILED JULY 1, 1910.

1,005, 1 Patented 001:. 3, 1911.

WITNESSES I INVENTOAZ/ZW /Zl/ XW 6. I11. J Z 1 f I Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. GIVENS, OF DUNCANNON, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs B. GIvENs, a

citizen of the United States of America, residing at Duncannon, in the county of Perry and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ashing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to washing machines and particularly to an agitator designed to carry the clothes in a receptacle containing a cleansing fluid, the said agitator having novel clamping means for retaining the clothes in place whereby they take motion from a reciprocating mechanism.

An object of this invention is to provide novel mechanism for affording a reciprocating motion to a clothes clamp, means being also provided for disconnecting the operating means from the reciprocating member in order that the same may swing clear of the top of the receptacle, thus permitting the said top to be applied and removed at will.

Furthermore, an object of this invention is to provide a washing machine having a reciprocating member and in connection therewith a clamping member comprising a body and an adjustable clothes engaging member for the purpose of holding the 1(glothes in contact with the clamping mem- Furthermore, an object of this invention is to produce a receptacle for the cleansing fluid, novel means being also provided for strengthening the bottom of the said receptacle and for affording a guide for the re ciprocating member on which the clothes clamping member is suspended.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, in which Figure 1 illustrates a view in perspective showing the exterior of a washing machine with the operating mechanism applied thereto; Fig. 2 illustrates a transverse sectional view on a line corresponding with the line 00-w of Fig. 3; Fig. 3 illustrates a longitudinal central sectional view; Fig. 4: illus- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 1, 1910.

Patented Oct. 3, 1911.

Serial No. 569,983.

trates a perspective view of the clothes clamping member; Fig. 5 illustrates a perspective view of the reinforcing device for the bottom of the receptacle; and Fig. 6 illustrates a detail view'of a part of the operating mechanism.

In these drawings 6 denotes the receptacle which may be of any suitable configuration, here shown to be rectangular in cross section, and 7 is the top thereof secured by a transversely disposed strap 8 having loops 9 and 10 adapted to receive the catches or studs 11 and 12 which studs project from the sides of the receptacle and by reason of this strap the top 7 is held on the body. The top 7 is further provided with a central aperture 13 in which a plunger 14 is slidable, the said plunger being of tubular form and having applied therein the guide rod 15 which rises from the spider 16 on the upper surface of the bottom of the receptacle. By reason of the fact that the spider 16 is attached to the bottom of the receptacle in any appropriate manner, as by rivets in the apertures 17 of the spider, the bottom of the receptacle is reinforced and the guide rod 15 insures proper vertical movement of the plunger.

The upper end of the plunger is provided with screw threads 18 to which is applied a coupling 19 of the wrist pin 20, that is to say the coupling 19 and wrist pin 20 are integral, and the said wrist pin is designed to receive the pitman 21 which is pivotally connected to the crank arm 22 of the shaft 23. The shaft .23 as shown in the drawing is rotatably mounted in the bearings 24: and 25 on the brackets 26 and 27 respectively which brackets rise from the body of the machine. The top 7 is provided with appropriate handles 28 for the purpose of manipulating the said top and the shaft 23 has a cross arm 29 which is manipulated by the operator for the purpose of partially rotating the shaft in opposite directions.

The arm 22 has an angular end on which. the link 21 is mounted and movement of the pitman on the angular end of the arm is limited 'by a guard 30 which is looped around the arm 22 and has its end 31 pivoted in the pitman. By reason of the construction of the guard only a limited oscillation of the pitman on the angular end of the arm is permitted and therefore when the shaft is partially rotated to throw the arm 22 clear of the top of the washing machine the pitman will assume the position shown in Fig. 6. By reason of the guard, the said pitman is held in position to prevent undue movement thereof on the end of the arm. Y

The lower end of the plunger is connected to a frame-like clamping member32 which may be of any appropriate construction but is here shown as consisting of two parallel side bars connected in the center by a collar 33 through which the plunger extends and to which it is secured. Near one end of the clamping member is a standard 34 having a bifurcated end 35 which embracesthe sides of the clamping member and is preferably secured thereto by means of the'pin 36. The standard 34 has holes 36 therein for the reception of the clothes engaging rod 37 which clothes engaging rod may be applied to either one of the apertures of the said standard. Y I

The body of the clamp near the opposite end, is provided with a post 38 having notches 39 therein adapted to receive the clothes engaging rod so that the said clothes en aging rod may be applied to the post in di erent posit-ions of adjustment for the purpose of accommodating itself to a greater or less quantity of material to be treated. I

I claim I 1. In a washing. machine, the combination with a receptacle having a guide rod therein, a vertically reciprocable plunger guided by the, rod andmeans for reciprocating the plunger, of a clothes clamp secured to the plunger and comprising a frame hav- (.lopies of this patent may be obtained. for

ing parallel side members and posts having bifurcated ends embracing said side members, and a clothes engaging rod adjustably secured to the posts.

2. In a washing machine, a receptacle, clothes engaging means in the receptacle,

said clothes engaging means having a vertically reciprocable plunger thereon, a wrist pin on said plunger, a pitman journaled on said wrist pin, an oscillatory member pivotally connected to said receptacle, said oscillatory member having a crank arm pivotally connected to said pitman and means connecting the said pitman and said arm for limit-ing the oscillations of the arm.

3. In a washing machine, a receptacle, a shaft mounted for rotation externally of the receptacle, an arm on the shaft, a clothes clamp in the receptacle and comprising a multiplicity of substantially parallel bars, said bars being held in unison by means of a collar embracing their middle portion, standards secured to the end portions of the bars, one of said standards having apertures for receiving a rod, said rod having one end portion in oneof the apertures, notches in the other said standard for receiving the other end portion of said rod, and means connecting said arm and said collar for reciprocating said clothes clamp, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

- JAMES B. GIVENS. Witnesses:

Soo'r'r S. LEIBY, ELIAS B. LEIBY.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

